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Index Of Trees Of Sources Not Yet Committed To FreeBSD
Index To Peoples (
src/ ports/
doc/ ) Trees Of Sources Not As Yet Committed To FreeBSD source trees.
Motivation:
Mail thread starting here (a local extract of Original post here).
Proposal: http://wiki.freebsd.org/
Section: Development resources: Add a new line: Uncommitted
Sources Pointing to a new page eg http://wiki.freebsd.org/uncommitted/
with a table, contents to be inherited from this temporary
table below.
Table
Key
EMAIL OF RECORD OWNER |
Web mail page for mail, or mailto: (to contact/ check /
authorise any change of that line in table on wiki, |
CODE ROOT |
Where user keeps directories src/
ports/
doc/ |
FORMAT |
Raw (code or diffs) | CVS | SVN | HG |
GIT | MTN |
DESCRIPTION |
Generic hacks from an individual, or Project Name |
Extract Of Original Post
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Good point, Probably loads of fixes from non
commiters never get sent back to FreeBSD. Many
people will have motivation only to fix local problems,
but no time to send back, especially deterred by clunky
send-pr.
- Though I & many others have sent lots of send-pr,
contributing even a spelling correction to FreeBSD is
much harder than to eg http://wikipedia.org
- + a beginner has to bend their brain to send-pr
- + send-pr
user should not be burdened exploring tree to find
Maintainer to send-pr
CC (which should be automaticly extracted from tree
on a ports =
MAINTAINER basis or eg a src/
.MAINTAINER per some sub directories where there is a
volunteer or mail list)
- + send-pr
user must spend time composing a diplomatic &
attractive subject & body, to catch some gnats@
readers eye, to get them to stop browsing get
interested, & commit.
- Many a potential contributor's attitude will be:
I don't have time: Catch the diff or drop it, your
loss !
So a lot of potential send-pr
won't get filed, but I bet local users don't toss their
fixes though, but keep local patch kits, till if ever
they or others send-pr
& something gets commited, (which might be days or
years later).
- Those diff trees stored localy, users could
easily export via rdist/
rsync
etc to their local webs, eg I do this: My diffs in a
tree structure http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD
My application script http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/customise
- Those trees, FreeBSD
could encourage users to keep in a standard format
(path nomenclature etc) & we should reccomend,
indexed from a common page on eg wiki.freebsd.org
- It would make a search tool &/or automatic
periodic indexing for possible diffs so much better
than any general purpose search engine.
- Index of uncommited patches ready for test, would
be ideal for those currently stuck, & would
assist more motivated testers corroborating good
patches worth commiting.
- A standard format would increase chances patch
kits are found, even if patch creator too busy to
file send-pr
etc.
Let's adopt standards to make searches for potential
patch trees easier:
- Adopt a common path root & nomenclature for
all our trees of local diffs,
- Ask users to mirror local uncommited trees of
diffs to thir local webs (until if when commited
after send-pr,
then they delete)
- Ask authors of local patch kits to submit a
single URL to a new wiki page, pointing to top
automatically apply-able directory of patches
Later we might also list a SOC
project for a crawler indexer,
- src/
directories could also Optionaly later adopt
.MAINTAINER files (Subject of previous discussions,
please dont let that distract from main proposal
though)
- ports/*/*/Makefile
MAINTAINER
= could also be used by a SOC
tool
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